Re: [Evolution] background email filtering

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Well, not very easily:

1. You could setup a script which ran the dummy X server, Xvfb, then run up an evolution instance running in that which checked the mail.
2. You could write a script/program which talked to the mail component via CORBA.  Activated it, and then called sendAndReceive on it.  That would probably still need a (dummy) X server.

So, in theory it is possible, although it isn't very simple and perhaps not entirely what you're after.  I guess you can't just leave evo running overnight?

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 10:00 +0000, Bryan Cole wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to run evolution to download and filter emails from a cron
> job?
>
> When I startup Evo in the mornings, all my unfiltered new mail appears in
> the Inbox (most of which is spam / mailing list stuff). I must them wait
> for a few minutes while Evo filters the mail, in order to get to the
> relevant stuff. I'd like to filter mail automatically every 30 mins say,
> so that when I log in, I don't have a huge backlog awaiting processing.
>
> N.B. Don't bother telling me to use fetchmail/procmail/sieve/etc.. I'm
> stuck with an exchange server without server-side filtering options.
>
> cheers,
> Bryan
>
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